Mick Maytum

Mick Maytum is retired, but is still lecturing, consulting, producing tutorials for his websites and participating in IEC, ITU-T and IEEE standards development Graduating with a B.Sc (first class) honours degree he initially worked on magnetrons, and TV pickup tubes for three years. The next 30 years were spent at Texas Instruments UK where he designed and consulted on circuits for televisions, switching-mode power supplies, electronic lightning systems and telecommunication surge protection. Finally, 12 years were spent at what is now known as Bourns UK. He has served on IEEE, IEC, ITU-T, BSI, ATIS NIP-NEP, ATIS PEG, TIA TR-41, Telcordia, CENELEC and JEDEC standards development committees. Significant awards are the IEC 1906 medal, the IEEE-SA Standards Medallion (both twice) and he has the status of a Life Senior MIEEE. As a technical author he has authored eighteen Application Reports, contributed to five books, written thirteen articles, published six IEEE transactions papers and has 11 patents.